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Researchers studying the Flynn effect have found that scores on IQ tests have actually increased over time.

Here's what it means to be a culturally responsive teacher and where critical race theory ties in—or not.

«While more than half of public school students are students of color, most schools are organized around the mainstream culture of white Americans. The culture that many students experience at home and in their communities is not always represented at school—or is represented in a stereotypical way.»

Question-based learning is a type of inquiry where the learner is guided by forming and refining a guiding question (or questions).

«Questions are not only a driving force behind inquiry but can be used as a powerful assessment strategy, too.»

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«Spaced Repetition is a scientifically-proven method for enhanced retention. It’s a method in which information is consumed at increasing intervals until it's committed to long-term memory»

We can't expect students to cultivate growth mindsets if the school culture doesn't support them.

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«Cognitive overload inhibits learning. Too much information results in stress that prevents students from assimilating information effectively (Waddington, 1996).»

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Strategies like connecting new information to students’ prior knowledge guide them to store what they’re learning in long-term memory.

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Reasearch shows teens don't get sleepy until 10:45 or 11 p.m. But high school classes in Nashville still start at 7:05 a.m. "It's not a badge of honor," says the mayor.

Liberal education and career training aren’t mutually exclusive.

Crystal Lenhart’s passion for literacy closed the gap in reading proficiency at Big Horn Elementary.

In Kentucky, Pennsylvania, and Virginia, teachers are finding ways to give students an in-depth education on African American history even as the subject comes under attack.

“While wandering down the path of wonder, I briefly escape the world of separation and enter the world of unity.”

«But while we are born wakeful to wonder, our cultural conditioning and indoctrination — what we call our education — often schools us out of it. A century before scientists came to study the vitalizing psychology and physiology of enchantment, a century before our so-called liberal arts education had become the factory farming of the mind, Hesse laments:»

Private school vouchers lost a lot of battles, but they may have won the war.

Critical thinking is a whole lot harder than it looks.

«If you can begin to see the patterns in causes and their effects, you can start thinking ahead with insight. Ultimately, that’s the key to better decision-making.»

In the age of AI, computer science is no longer the safe major.

«Perhaps nothing has defined higher education over the past two decades more than the rise of computer science and STEM.»

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«If you never learned how to dance at parties/weddings/clubs, you can teach yourself by watching videos of Motown and girl groups of the 60s.»

It didn’t matter if she knew you — if you were a professor and Asian American, you were a potential target.

Stratospheric IQs are like leprechauns, unicorns, or mermaids

Every summer, more than a hundred kids spend a weekend at Camp Erin swimming and canoeing. They also learn to deal with death

Peter Thiel on multiculturalism as misdirection.